NORRISTOWN – An Upper Pottsgrove man faces jail time for assaulting his former girlfriend and for violating previous sentences for assault and theft.

Jared Freeman Hill, 22, of the 1500 block of Laura Lane, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday to what amounted to 11 ˝ to 23 months in the county jail, to be followed by two years’ probation, after he pleaded guilty to simple assault in connection with an August 2012 domestic-related incident in Pottstown and admitted that the assault crime violated his parole or probation for previous convictions of theft and assault.

Senior Judge William T. Nicholas, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, also ordered that Hill undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation.

In the most recent case, Pottstown police accused Hill of assaulting his onetime girlfriend in her residence in the 300 block of Chestnut Street on Aug. 8, 2012, according to court papers. The victim told police that Hill, with whom she had had an 18 month relationship before it ended in April 2012, struck her in the face, head and torso during an argument that occurred while he visited her.

At the time of the assault, Hill was on probation or parole in connection with two previous incidents that occurred between August and November 2008 and for which Hill pleaded guilty to charges of simple assault and theft by unlawful taking in 2009, according to court papers.

In August 2008, Lower Pottsgrove police charged Hill, then 18 and of North State Street, with simple assault after he knocked an employee of the Redner’s market on North Charlotte Street to the ground as he tried to flee from the store while engaged in an alleged retail theft, according to an arrest affidavit. The employee, police said, suffered minor injuries in the fall. Hill originally was sentenced to probation in that case.

In November 2008, Upper Pottsgrove police charged Hill with theft by unlawful taking and conspiracy in connection with the theft of property from a Snyder Road residence, according to court papers. Hill originally was sentenced to nine-to-23 months in jail for that crime and was serving parole and probation in connection with that matter when he was arrested for the August 2012 domestic-related assault, court records indicate.